DEADLINES

Wednesday April 30, 2008 Early deadline for both
registration and abstract submission for
contributed talks and poster presentations. Wednesday May 21, 2008
Final
registration and abstract submission deadline, for
poster presentations only

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT

X-ray observations have profoundly influenced our understanding of a wide range
of astrophysical phenomena, but one area in which Chandra's influence has
arguably been the greatest is in the study of radio galaxies and radio
loud quasars. The superb angular resolution of Chandra permits the
multi-component emission from radio galaxies to be spatially separated
and has given us insights into the accretion and outflow processes. In
many cases, however, the wealth of new data has provoked more questions
than answers. This conference will highlight both theoretical and
observational studies, with emphasis towards the most recent X-ray
(Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku) observations. All aspects of radio
galaxy physics will be covered, including nuclei, jets, lobes, hot
spots, and interactions with the ambient medium. The goals are to bring
together a diverse group of researchers to present the latest results
and discuss the outstanding problems in radio galaxy physics, and best
decide how to use the unique capabilities of Chandra going forward to
resolve the outstanding issues.

We schedule three tutorial sessions as part of the 2008 Chandra
workshop, to provide students and early-career scientists
some basic theoretical underpinnings of processes relevant to astrophysical
jets and to relate these models to relevant observables.